Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski should go into Wimbledon with a surge of confidence after she and Chinese partner Yifan Xu won the women’s doubles final of the Eastbourne grass-court tennis tournament in England on Saturday.

Gabriela Dabrowski won a share of the $55,140 top prize for claiming the women’s doubles title in the Eastbourne grass-court tournament on Saturday.Graham Hughes /
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Seeded fourth going into that Women’s Tennis Association event, Dabrowski and Xu defeated the Romanian duo of Irina-Camelia and Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-3, 7-5, to claim the top prize of about $55,000.

Dabrowski and Xu have already been seeded sixth for women’s doubles at Wimbledon, where play begins on Monday.

The 26-year-old Dabrowski should also be one of the top seeds for Wimbledon mixed doubles, with those rankings to be announced this coming week. She and Croatia’s Mate Pavic won the Australian Open mixed doubles final in January and reached the final of the French Open, where they had been seeded No. 1, before losing 6-1, 7-6 (5), 10-8 to Croatia’s Ivan Dodig and Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan.

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